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Hamlet Film Adaptation by Franco Zeffirelli

In six pages this film version of Shakespeare's play is explored in an essay that analyzes the meaning and content of an important...

England's King George III vs. the American Colonists

armed forces is nothing short of an insurrection which the King has the God-given right as their sovereign to suppress. King Geor...

Niccolo Machiavelli and Robert Penn Warren

In six pages which includes a half page outline this paper examines All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren within the context of...

Franco Zeffirelli's Cinematic Interpretation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

Acting Concept and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

who informs him that he was murdered, that we note a change in Hamlet that begins to involve serious acting. In this simple exa...

Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare and the Relationship Between Prince Hal and King Henry

with the help of Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur, (the Percy family) deposed and murdered King Richard. Bolingbroke is now K...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Comparative Analysis of Rulers in 4 Plays by William Shakespeare

trained to the arts of war and government, and not toward the finer sensibilities . Therefore, Theseus supports Egeus in forcing h...

Ferdinand and Regan/Goneril

never a bone int" (I.284). Again, the lamprey (a type of eel) and the reference to its bonelessness, is a reference to the penis. ...

Social Commentary in King Lear - Men and Beasts

"King Lear". In the passage, Lear is reacting to the latest treacherous ploy by his daughters Goneril and Regan, who have suggeste...

Shakespeare and Homer - Examining Patriarchal Content

and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

Gertrude in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles Compared

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

The Best and Worst in on Human nature in King Lea

were planning to abdicate in favor of one of the women, that would be different, but hes not-he is dividing the kingdom without na...

Southern Literature and Themes of Communication Lacks and Self Absorption

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

Comparing Three Passages of Shakespeare's "King Lear," All Outakes From ACT I (I.i.85-93), (I.iv.106-126), and (I.i.148-159),

This comparison paper involving "King Lear" determines the patterns that arise when the passages are read next to each o...

Revisionist History, William Shakespeare and the Actual King Macbeth

In five pages this paper examines the dramatic liberties Shakespeare took in his portrayal of King Macbeth in this consideration o...

Creative Essay on the ‘Revolutionary’ King Lear

could have joined forces with another expatriate, Edmund of Gloucester, much like Fidel Castro did with the revolutionary Che Guev...

Nothing and Something in “King Lear”

each of them to tell how much she loves him. Goneril goes first and gushes all over the old man, telling him she loves him so much...

Characters in All the King's Men vs. The Sound and the Fury

success is also her own. Jacks mother dotes on him, and in turn, she becomes the center of his universe. However, Jacks mother a...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

3 Plays by William Shakespeare and the Conflict Between Parents and Children

In 5 pages this paper examines the Shakespearean plays The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear in a comparative analysis of h...

Leader's Political Role in King Henry V by William Shakespeare

In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...

Significance of King Claudius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper analyzes the importance of Claudius to this William Shakespeare tragedy and also considers how his charact...

Cordelia and King Lear

In five pages this essay examines the unwavering love Cordelia had for her father King Lear despite his oftentimes less than pater...

Henry the Fourth Part One by William Shakespeare and the Characters of King Henry and Hotspur

In 5 pages these warrior characters are contrasted and compared within the context of Shakespeare's play in terms of their speeche...

King Henry V as Depicted by William Shakespeare

Henry Tudor, is the same person that Shakespeare called Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts I and II, except that lovable, feckless, and ...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...